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Small Scale Forestry Safety Training
1.
The Forestry Industry Safety Council (FISC) has, until now, been concentrating on improving the safety of the work that goes on in large-scale forests which make up about 70% of the wood production from plantation forests.
This year FISC will be working with the NZ Farm Forestry Association to identify what safety resources are needed by the more than 14,000 small-scale forest owners who control the balance of the production.
It is important that any resources that FISC develops are useful and targeted at the right areas. To assist in this, we have put together this questionnaire with the aim of understanding which activities small scale foresters undertake themselves (or with friends or family), and therefore need advice about; and which they contract out to other people, who are likely to be covered by industry training systems.
First a couple of questions about you.
To which NZFFA Branch do you belong ?
Far North
Mid North
Lower North
Waikato
Waitomo
Bay of Plenty
Taupo and Districts
Gisborne East Coast
Hawkes Bay
Taranaki
Middle Districts
Wairarapa
Wellington
Nelson
Marlborough
West Coast
North Canterbury
Central Canterbury
Ashburton
South Canterbury
North Otago
Mid Otago
South Otago
Southland
Southern High Country
Not a member of NZFFA
2.
We recognise that NZFFA members have many different interests. For the purposes of this survey, we are using three categories to describe the reason they are involved in forestry:
Farming
- people whose prime interest and business is in farming and who see trees as complementing their farming activities.
Passion
- tree growers who have a fundamental interest in growing trees, alternative species, etc.
Investing
– tree growers whose primary interest is return on their investment in trees.
If you had to choose ONE of these categories to describe your interests, which would you choose?
Farming
Passion
Investing
3.
Now the meat of the questionnaire. In the following questions, we want to know what activities you undertake yourself or with family or friends so we can see what safety-related training we should be providing.
Planting and Replanting
What percentage of the planting of new land and/or replanting are you likely to
undertake yourself
(rather than employ a contractor to do the planting for you?
0
100
Clear
4.
Pruning
What percentage of the pruning are you likely to
undertake yourself
(rather than employ a contractor to do the job for you?
0
100
Clear
5.
Thinning
What percentage of the thinning are you likely to
undertake yourself
(rather than employ a contractor to do the job for you?
0
100
Clear
6.
Earthworks (Tracks, etc.) and River Crossings
What percentage of the earthworks and River Crossings are you likely to
undertake yourself
(rather than employ a contractor to do the job for you?
0
100
Clear
7.
Quarrying (for use withing the forest)
Do you operate our own quarry or borrow pit to provide materials for roads, etc. in your forest?
No
Yes
8.
Harvesting
What percentage of harvesting are you likely to
undertake yourself
(rather than employ a contractor to do the job for you?
0
100
Clear
9.
Land Preparation for Replanting
What percentage of land preparation for replanting are you likely to
undertake yourself
(rather than employ a contractor to do the job for you?
0
100
Clear
10.
Your Training Needs
Please list below any topics on which you would like to attend a training course to improve the safety of your operations.
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4.
Current Progress,
0 of 10 answered